left gastric artery

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   a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus

   Synonymsarteria gastrica sinistra

   Broadergastric artery

Questions about left gastric artery

What does left gastric artery mean?

left gastric artery means "a branch of the celiac artery that supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach and the abdominal part of the esophagus".

What is another word for left gastric artery?

Close synonyms include arteria gastrica sinistra. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is left gastric artery a common word?

left gastric artery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.